As with many other subreddits, /r/LegalAdviceUK (which had been dark since the start of the blackout) has been sent a thinly-veiled threat by Reddit.
So they’ve reopened in order to start moving the entire community of 810,000 subscribers to somewhere else.
As you can imagine there are a number of legal professionals who moderate that sub, and they really don’t take kindly to being threatened. They sign off their reopening message with “Fuck /u/Spez and long live John Oliver.” but for the real fun you might want to look up a very famous British legal case they reference, Arkell v Pressdram 1971.
Moderating on discord seems quite difficult
Modding aside, my experience of Discord is that it’s great if you want to use it like a chatroom, but it sucks if you’re trying to search for information. I wouldn’t think Discord would work well for something like legal advice.
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Discord has threaded discussions, but its truly a case of “jack of all trades”. It’s simply not built to manage they kind of content, and does nothing but realtime comms with any utility.
Guilded is better, but still relatively unpolished.
The only real apples:apples option for an exodus from snooville is a vbulletin site or federated boards like kbin.
Guilded is also owned by Roblox, which has its own troubled history. If r/legaladviceuk wanted to go the chatroom route, it’d probably be better to go to a FOSS alternative like Revolt, Matrix, or Signal.
Moderating can be a bit of a pain, but there’s bots to help with moderation etc. But yeah, agreed. It’s a good space for a chatroom, but not to search for information.
Yeah, one of the Discords I help with is >450k people. It’s a gargantuan task to moderate, and a lot of it depends on having >20 people (which is another task in and of itself to vet >20 trustworthy people) that relies heavily on the community actively reporting things as well.
It can work, but for legal advice, I’d probably recommend another option.
There are moderation assistant bots and a number of settings that can be used to ease moderation. Because of the free API, big servers can make custom bots to suit their needs.
Moderating anything with over 10k active members is going to be a lot of work, no matter how streamlined the tools are. People are very creative at finding new ways to be assholes.
Interacting with Discord when there are 1000s of people is really difficult. I’ve moved to the r/formula1 discord but I actively hate using it, as while threading is technically possible it’s never used. The posts+comments approach is so much more manageable.